We have two automations that can translate text into another language for you:
Translate Text in Airtable with Google Translate
This automation uses the Google Translate API to translate text between any of the supported languages.
Configuration
You'd need to add a Google Cloud Service Account JSON Key first, as explained here.
Navigate to your dashboard and create the automation in the right Airtable base.
Under Setup, set the Google Cloud Service Account JSON Key you added in step 1.
Then set the Field to Translate and Translated Text Field.
Choose the target language
Supported Languages
English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Polish
Russian
Greek
Turkish
Hungarian
Romanian
Czech
Slovak
Bulgarian
Slovenian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian
Croatian
Serbian
Ukrainian
Hebrew
Arabic
Persian
Hindi
Bengali
Punjabi
Gujarati
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi
Kannada
Malayalam
Nepali
Urdu
Indonesian
Malay
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Analyze and Modify Airtable Data using the GPT Model
This automation uses OpenAI's GPT models. It can perform a huge variety of tasks, including translation into most common languages. You would simply provide it with the appropriate prompt and it would perform the action (e.g. "Translate this text to French")
Configuration
You'd need to add an OpenAI API Key first, as explained here.
Navigate to your dashboard and create the automation in the right Airtable base.
Under Setup, set the OpenAI API Key you added in step 1.
Then set the Input Field and Output Field.
Set the Additional Prompt (Optional) to something like "Translate this text to French"
Under GPT Model, choose the model to use
Optional: Define parameters for the model under Advanced